Last night at the Evansville School District Board of Education meeting, Supr. Heidi Garvin explained that the Charter Franchise Agreement was up for renewal, and that for a school district our size, one of the items we should have is access to programming of events of interest. She mentioned the possibility of broadcasting board meetings that were of particular interest.
Art Phillips suggested that all board meetings be televised as a matter of policy. He said that the public is interested in what goes on even though many cannot spend the four hours away from home on a Monday night. This would be a way of informing the public. Ms. Garvin said the first goal would be to get the access.
What do you think? Do you want to have the Board of Education meetings on cable so you can make up your own mind what happened rather than believe a news article or heaven forbid a blogger?
You make the call?
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I as well think this is a great idea. I work nights, so I really would like to have a better idea what is going on. I think in a district that is growing like Evansville is this is the next step.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see this as well, it would do them no harm to keep the public better informed. I also think in terms of their complaint process it needs to change. I inquired this last school year as to what their complaint process was, only to be informed you fill out a form with the school administrator and the school investigates it self. I think there needs to be a better system. I would like to see a panel, a mix of parent , school board member, staff investigating complaints. One should also be aware you can also skip the school complaint process all together and go right to the DPI. YOU can actually do both. There are also other out side agency's you can file a complaint with.
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